As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning By Laurie Lee (Paperback, 2014)

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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is a beautiful & moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him the young Laurie Lee walks to London There he makes a living labouring & playing the violin But deciding to travel further a field & knowing only the Spanish phrase for ' Will you please give me a glass of water?' he heads for Spain With just a blanket to sleep under & his trusty violin he spends a year crossing Spain from Vigo in the north to the southern coast Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations ' He writes like an angel & conveys the pride & vitality of the humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness zest & humour'
- Sunday Times ' There's a formidable instant charm in the writing that genuinely makes it difficult to put the book down'
- New Statesman Laurie Lee has written some of the best-loved travel books in the English language Born in Stroud Gloucestershire in 1914 he was educated at Slad village school & Stroud Central School At the age of nineteen he walked to London & then travelled on foot through Spain where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees as he recounted in A Moment of War In 1950 he married Catherine Polge & they had one daughter Laurie Lee published four collections of poems The Sun My Monument (1944) The Bloom of Candles (1947) My Many-Coated Man (1955) & Pocket Poems (1960) His other works include The Voyage of Magellan (1948) The Firstborn (1964) I Can't Stay Long (1975) & Two Women (1983) He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography Cider with Rosie (1959) which has sold over six million copies worldwide As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) & A Moment of War (1991) He died in May 1997